Ricardo Semler Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.”

“No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential.”

“The best way to invest corporate profits is to give them to the employees.”

“People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.”

“The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life.”

“I once worked it out - after $12 million, all millionaires are the same. That's because we're all humans, confined to human scale. How many homes can you live in? How many meals can you eat? You can have a living room the size of a cathedral, but you won't live in it. It's too big.”